The Return~ (Intro drabble)
The door to the Inaba residence unlocks and slowly opening, the detective letting out a soft sigh ready to finally relax at home after a long day at work. As always, Nanako was standing there with a bright smile on her face.
The inside of building smelled of freshly baked goods and in Nanako’s hands was large plate full of chocolate cake.
“What’s that you got there? Is there something special I should know about?”
“Big bro and me made a chocolate cake! You work so super hard so I thought you should have the first piece! I even made the frosting all by myself!”
The cake itself looked delicious and smelled great, the sweet smell of cocoa wafting into his nose.
"I really hope you like it!”
Before Dojima could take the cake so he could cut the first slice, this happy scene quickly stops and the world around him begins to spin. Confused and surprised, Dojima darts his head left and right trying to catch a glimpse of his daughter as the world around him slowly turns to white.
“Nanako? Nanako! Answer me! Nanako!”
The detective eventually opens his eyes, finding himself in white room. It turns out that everything that happened was all in his head. Just.. where the hell is he? The room he was in looked oddly familiar as if he was here before, soon enough he was again greeted by the faces of those all too familiar scientists. So he was kidnapped.. again? Wait, he was returned home again? He had no recollection of anything, all he remembered was that he was taken to the city and sometime a few months back everything was just blank.
Reality finally begins to hit Dojima like a truck, was he really out for this long? What the hell happened?! Did he hit his head and somehow ended up knocked out for a few months? Everything was just a pain trying to comprehend this. Dojima places his hand over his forehead as he’d shut his eyes tight, at this point he wasn’t sure what was real or what was a dream anymore. This all really just seemed like one big nightmare...
But the main concern on his mind though was Nanako, if he really was here for who knows how long, that means Nanako was still back at their home in Inaba all alone. It made his heart sink just thinking about it, at the very least he knew that both Narukami and Adachi are both there to comfort her in his absence. He really wished there was some way he could contact his daughter, just so he could have the reassurance to know that she’s alright.
“Hang on just a little longer, daddy will be home soon, I promise.”
He was going to get to the bottom of this, maybe this really all was just some complicated prank or some hoax he just so happened to be thrown into. He wasn’t going to buy into this whole ‘other dimension, Dr. scifi star wars’ crap, what was happening now was a case of mass kidnapping, he was going to be sure to get everyone safely home.
